Writing Gooder A Group Blog From The Young Writers Society

Behind the keyboard: On being a writer 5

Behind the keyboard: On being a writer

We writers, as a group, must be very strange to outsiders. For one thing, we sometimes hear voices in our head. However, we sometimes call them our characters. We write down the things they...

Writing Prompt #1 0

Writing Prompt #1

Hello YWSers! Welcome to the first in a series of weekly writing prompts. As a community of writers, we are all too familiar with writer’s block. The purpose of these prompts is to write...

Featured Club: Wheel of Prompts 0

Featured Club: Wheel of Prompts

Wheel of Prompts is a fairly new club started by Zyphlid. Young as it is, however, the club already provides a nice variety of daily prompts including those based on words, pictures, and music.

Fiction Focus 1- Protagonists 8

Fiction Focus 1- Protagonists

So, you’re all set to write that story of dashing and daring- or maybe of romance- or of political intrigue- or self discovery- or an odd relationship- whatever it might be, I will put...

Word History of the Week: Write 5

Word History of the Week: Write

Etymology is,”the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time,” (definition from Wikipedia). We use words every day; I’m using words right now! But...

What to Expect from Writing Gooder 2

What to Expect from Writing Gooder

By now we’ve given you a small dose of what’s in store for the resurrection of Writing Gooder, but what else can you expect in the weeks, months or even years to come? There’s...

Quote of the Week #1 0

Quote of the Week #1

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarise the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.” –Toni Morrison